

Satisfactory oil generator#
It costs a minuscule like 1MW to run a packager for a single generator using lowered clocks. You recycle the packages so there is no material loss. Package all the fuel you create, then have 1 packager feed each generator. If you're willing to eat a small power loss there is a pretty great way to 100% guarantee you get exactly the amount of liquid you need exactly when you need it. I'm talking dozens of hours of system tests, rebuilds, and research. I've made a 60k MW fuel plant work at 100% efficiency consistently using only pipes before but it took me a huge time sink to get it there. How you route your pipes, how elevation is involved, where you have valves and pumps, and many other factors can all impact your ability to make your systems distribute fluids correctly. Its 'inefficient' in a sense that you have extra machines but you will at least be getting everything out of your nodes. The easier way is to have it work in smaller chunks where each actually has a bit of overhead capacity. Its always a mess trying to max this out based on flow rates. This is compounded by the fact the pipes dont actually carry 600. You want to have basically one extra machine to make sure you are getting your whole output worth. Run each blender seperately to a set of burners and add one more burner than you think you would logically need (or ensure the last generator is not always full). The only good recommendation is to not try and max out the flow capacity when using liquids.
Satisfactory oil full#
This leads to the last couple of generators running dry occasionally even when they shouldn't, and some of your output buffers getting full when others arent.

So if you have 6 blenders going into 1 600/min pipe, even if the pipe worked as advertised, your actually production rate would oscillate between over and under 600, and a buffer should help this but it doesnt really. This leads to some machines being full or empty variably.

They kind of glug it in bursts whenever a production cycle completes. The thing with refineries and actually most things is they dont make product smoothly.

The blenders issue is more straightforward. Buffers are FULL and the output of the flow compensator is still fluctuating.Īny ideas would be greatly appreciated. 6 Blenders (600 Fuel) feeding 50 generators and I can't keep the generators fed because the output buffers in the blenders are backing up and the fuel delivery is fluctuating. Same issue with the Fuel to the generators after the Blenders. I've tore it down and rebuilt it a couple times but cannot get the fluid to a steady flow. So why then do the outputs fluctuate with the input? This seems broken. They do drain some periodically so I know the pipes are connected correctly but can't for the life of me figure out why one refinery will have a zero output buffer while the next two or three are maxed out.Īlso, I can logically understand how the flow compensator would take a fluctuating input and smooth it out with fluid from the buffers. Between 4 and 6 of the refineries always have full output buffers so there should be plenty of reserve to keep the flow rates up. The input to the flow compensator fluctuates but have no idea why. I have pumps on the inlet and outlet sides as Galleon recommended to stabilize it more. Design is two buffers in parallel with a center pipe and a valve that Galleon wrote up in the guide to pipelines. Two pipes of 600 Heavy HOR go to two Flow Compensators with two industrial fluid buffers each. Using the Alternate Heavy Oil Residue with 900 Crude Oil going to 30 Refineries. Pulling hair out that I can't afford to lose.
